In today's news we look at Ohio's growing data center, Hudson launching its high-speed Internet, the University of Akron offering a new associate degree for people in health care simulation training, Suffolk University selecting LexisNexis digital library and the National Science Foundation researching ways to improve supercomputer reliability...
In today's news we look at the Ohio Department of Higher Education working to create career pathways into manufactoring, AT&T commiting to bring broadband to Tennesse, a supercomputer that can predict when you are going to die, the pew research center report on libraries and General Mills using virtual technology to attract millennials...
In today's news we look at Colubmus having the Midwest's top employment growth, Lakeland Community College being awarded $45,000, Obama pushing for free community college, broadband connections to connect all of Kentucky and donations helping to create supercomputer for students...
In today's news we look at ocean waves being researched as a renewable energy, Ohio college to create a new drone center, Shaker, Ohio, becoming one of the first communities in Ohio to offer affordable high-speed broadband and San Diego opening the first public library biotech lab...
In today's news we look at Ohio State University's partnership with the state of Ohio in data center costs, Ohio legislators introducing a bill for tax-free textbooks, a new California supercomputer to advance research, the state of Ohio and NineSigma collaborating to drive job creation and IMLS announcing 276 grants to libraries in the United States...
In today's news we look at rural areas in Ohio getting a broadband upgrade, the top 20 STEM colleges in Ohio, the Univerersity of Akron offering low-cost classes, the first-ever public libraries and STEM event and fighting superbugs with supercomputers...
In today's news we look at grants being given to students for STEM education, Indiana planning statewide broadband access, Columbus landing the international gathering for library dignitaries from around the world, high school students in Gahanna using the latest techology and the Gordon supercomputer operating for an additional year...
In today's news we look at Ohio colleges partnering to diversify the STEM workplace, NSF enabling a professor to engineer noses, jaws and ears, DataQ launching online, a traffice-management website for drones being unveiled by Wright State Research Institute, and Wisconsin giving millions to state broadband providers...
In today's news we look at NASA awarding grants, Dayton being recongnized as a top STEM community, Kentucky broadband management and Ohio State researchers creating a human brain...
Last Saturday (Aug. 8, 2015), I got on my bike with 7,980 other cyclists (including at least one unicyclist) and took to the road to raise funds for cancer research at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center—Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute.
In today's news we look at Kent State University, Ohio wanting to attract more international students, LeBron James offering full scholarships for his I PROMISE kids, China's supercomputer resuming after Tianjin blasts and Ohio universities uniting to expand Ohio exporting...
In today's news we explore a new robot from MIT with human reflexes, the breathtaking simluation of tornado-producing thunderstorms and Verizon's new technology that would allow it to deliver 10 Gbps broadband.
In a small, intimate setting at the restaurant 9 Tables in The Plains near Athens, I spoke to Ohio University’s Institute for Chinese Academic Leaders about shared collections and services and the challenges and opportunities for academic library consortia. After giving a brief overview of OhioLINK to a group of about 15 people, including leaders from Beijing Normal University and Northeast Normal University, I spoke about the practicalities of building and sustaining a consortium model. Consortia models exist in all shapes and sizes, and I enjoyed the opportunity to speak about OhioLINK and to give a brief overview of several other models here in the United States. Academic library consortia have many different membership models, resources and services
In today's news we look at Windstream expanding rural broadband, the top technologies in the ICT market, and NASA's new Curiosity simulator.
In today's news we look at cyber attacks within the United States and internationally, a standardized approach to recognizing online degree programs, the Internet of things, and colleges trying out SDN.
In today's news we look at President Obama's executive order to build the world's fastest supercomputer, the nation's first public safety broadband network , improvements to OU's Alden Library, the Pacific Research Platform and IBM's Watson supercomputer partnering with CVS pharmacy.
In today's news we look at MVAPICH User Group returning to Ohio, Morrow County improving it's emergency communications, University of Akron laying off 161 employees, a DC makerspace helping improve STEM and Ebook vendors taking another look at the library market...
Earlier this month, I traveled to Bari, Italy, to deliver a pair of presentations, including the keynote address, at Progetto “RIESCO” Challenge GPU4EO 2015. The event showcased solutions to improve the performance of software used to process remotely sensed data through the use of GPUs (graphics processing units). In this article, I summarize my talk, “GPU applications for scientific computation, training and visualization.” I focus on several examples of how we’ve leveraged GPU computing in the Interface Laboratory at the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC).
In today's news we look at Amazon planning to create 2,000 jobs in central Ohio, school districts in Ohio cutting librarian jobs, Ohio offering a tax-free day on school supplies, presidential campaigns using online tracking and a British Navy warship testing a 3-D printed drone at sea..
In today's news we look at Gov. Kasich joining the GOP race, three Dayton colleges sharing $900K to bolster graduation rates, three Columbus education focused groups merging together, Amazon using North Carolina wind power to meet the energy needs of Ohio data centers, and Hudson launching a city-owned fiber-optic broadband plan...
In today's news we look at John Kasich's preparations for his presidential run, Akron getting a broadband upgrade, an editorial on the benefits of STEM school in Ohio, OSU engineering students helping to pursure street luger speed record, and Illinois State University starting a human "book" project...
In today's news we look at Wayne Struble, Kasich's director of policy, taking over as the administration's chief of staff, UC joining other Ohio universities in the I-Corps@Ohio initiative, Obama announcing a pilot program to expand broadband, two national labs working with IBM and Nvidia on supercomputing excellence, and CHORUS signing a memorandum of understanding with ORCID to support discoverability in scholarly communications...
In today's news we look at Ohio State University research creating new companies, senators asking FCC to investigate cable and broadband prices, University of Akron cutting jobs and baseball program, West Virginia University library creating the first Wikipedian-in-Residence to focus on gender gap and five reasons colleges should invest more in career services...
In today's news we look at Ohio being the first state with 1 gigabit commercial Internet accessible statewide, the Ohio Supercomputer Center's Summer Institute providing a unique STEM experience, the benefits for Ohio college students under the new two-year budget, library maker movements, and a new data-managent tool that will be used to meet the big-data challenge...
On Thursday and Friday, June 11-12, the Ohio Technology Consortium (OH-TECH) welcomed 45 technologists representing colleges and universities from Ohio and other states who arrived here to study an important emerging security technology. These systems administrators, identity managers and developers packed the BALE Theater and Conference Room to take part in the InCommon Shibboleth Workshop [https://www.incommon.org/shibtraining/] and learn how to implement federated identity management software.
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